Newly identified prions in budding yeast, and their possible functions

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 452-459

  Crow, Emily T ^a   Li, Liming ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Epigenetics; Prion; Protein aggregation; Yeast

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEIN GAR; PROTEIN ISP; PROTEIN MCA; PROTEIN MOT3; PROTEIN NSI; PROTEIN PIN; PROTEIN PSI; PROTEIN SWI; PROTEIN URE3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 80053569315     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2011.03.003     Document Type: Review

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